This morning at 1:10 A.M. in the neighborhood La Macarena, Colombia. The well-known singer and performer Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, suffered a serious car accident in which she lost herlife. Aboard the vehicle was her manager, who was seriously injured. Witnesses say the car driven by the latter, was speeding ..

To view exclusive images and details of the story, we have attached a document with all the information about this tragic event.

When attempting to open the Word document (IMAGENES_01.doc), the potential victim sees the following:

The rest of the document explains to the victim how to remove the security settings from Word, supposedly to enable them to view the pictures. But what will actually happen is that the malicious macro in the document will try to infect the PC.

This malicious document has a VirusTotal detection rate of just 2/54. According to an analysis of the document, it then appears to download additional components from an insecure Joomla site at [donotclick]www.papeleriaelcid.com/aurora/ajax/

This type of spam seems to commonly target Spanish-speaking South American victim (like this one).

In this case the originating IP was 207.150.195.247 (a SouthWeb Ventures IP allocated to a customer supposedly called "Microinformatica Gerencial, S.A. de C.V.").

Blocking the papeleriaelcid.com site and rejecting emails from 207.150.195.247 might be wise if you have Spanish-speaking users.